----- Original Message -----
From: "isaac" <isaac at members.evolt.org>
To: <thesite at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:27 PM
Subject: RE: [thesite] test.evolt.org change fyi
|| > I don't think I'm seeing what it properly .. how come "Author" is so far
| > away ? Looks like a word "lost" ? I'm not sure we need "Author
| > at all. At
| > 640 x 480, it looks really poor .. the text is way too narrow.
|| that is courtesy of jeff or adrian's styling. you probably missed the
| original which was a fairly accurate representation of this:
|http://www.anarchitect.net/isaac/evolt/author2.gif|| we may be better off dumping the author column. as you suggest, it's
pretty
| obvious anyway.
|| > I'd suggest eliminating "Total Ratings Received" .. I'm not sure
| > it has any value .. and there are just too many words there, IMHO.
|| i think that's been added by jeff.
|| > The cubes are lost and alone at the bottom .. plus why have the cubes
and
| > the words indicating number of articles written? We don't need both ..
| > we've already decided on the cubes. I think we're getting too granular
| > here.
|| because the cubes are not an immediately obvious representation of
articles
| written, *and* i'd hope that the cubes gain wider use in the future (i.e.,
| to represent overall involvement in various things besides just articles).
|| currently, they're our indicator of committment to evolt.org. take a
| longtime contributor writing their first article, and they'll look wimpy.
| iconically, i think they're cool. just currently limited.
|| anyway, for now they could be shifted to next to the username. also, i
think
| that the username here should be optionally (or by default) changed to
full
| name. i want to show my full name there but can i edit my username?
|| btw, when i click "edit account", the form is blank instead of prefilled
| with my existing data. is that just a TEO thing? or because i've only
filled
| it in on WEO and not TEO?
|| also btw, the visited link status in that box is invisible (i'm using
| mccreath's slate theme). do we need to class those links with .side?
|| > Email/MemberPage - I'd prefer to link only to the Author name (as it is
| > now). The author's email is on the member page, unless they asked that
it
| > be hidden. No reason to link to it separately.
|| i think there is a reason to link to it separately and directly. saves a
| click. encourages interaction between members/readers. the existing format
| was "author info" with no indication (bar assumption) that the author info
| also included an email address.
||| isaac
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